Microsoft Drivers 5.12 for PHP for SQL Server Released

We have released Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, version 5.12.0. This production release of the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers has been built with PHP 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 and tested on all supported platforms.

Notable items about this release since the previous production release include:

Added

• Support for PHP 8.3
• Support for Alpine 3.19

Fixed

• Update connection string keywords set function (#1484)
• Fix error throw for multiple result sets (#1485)
• Fix invalid precision error (#1497)

Limitations

• No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type
• No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values
• In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work
• Always Encrypted requires MS ODBC Driver 17+
  • Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported
  • Issue #716 - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported
  • Issue #1050 - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns
  • Always Encrypted limitations

Known Issues

• This release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver.
• Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with unixODBC < 2.3.7
• When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS
  • unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages
  • due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples here

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:

sudo pecl install sqlsrv
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv

• Windows DLLs for PHP 8.0 or above can be downloaded as a package from Microsoft, or from the PECL repository for SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.
• Direct downloads for released binaries can also be found at the Github release tag.

David Engel